Filtering your Spotlight search with keywords
Ivan | Wed, 2009-12-23 11:17
There are situations when you have too many results in your Spotlight search. You can filter them to exactly what you need by using one of these search expressions:
- name:searchterm - search filenames only, useful if you know you're not interested in email or text file content, etc, just file names.
- date:today - useful if you know the file you're looking for was edited on a certain date. You can of course use the terms yesterday, 12/24/09 and even tomorrow which will search only calendar entries and to-do items.
- kind:pdf - handy if you know the content type you're looking for or want to list all files of a certain kind. More details here.
- author:ivan - use this if you know who the author of a certain document, email or chat is.
More posts on Spotlight:
Quick calculations with Spotlight
Tagging files for Spotlight
Changing the Spotlight shorcut
Show file location found by Spotlight
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Two of my favourite ones are kind:illustrator and kind:photoshop
And if you use them with TextExpander and use AND or OR etc. you can type very powerful searches very quickly in Spotlight's drop down search.
Windows 7 does this MUCH better!
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